Author Topic: Bridges for CrinklyLion (and everyone else!) (Read 422658 times)

Gattopardo · « **Reply #2425 on:** 17 August, 2022, 02:05:28 am »

Going to do a paris bridges ride and take a photos in the middle of every bridge.

CrinklyLion · « **Reply #2426 on:** 17 August, 2022, 09:44:25 am »

What an excellent plan

Gattopardo · « **Reply #2427 on:** 17 August, 2022, 06:43:23 pm »

Just for you.

There are allegedly 39 bridges but two are rail only.

There is a ride for unicyclists called the pont punch (Bridge punch) where you drink some punch and the middle of every bridge.

Kim · « **Reply #2428 on:** 04 September, 2022, 05:36:50 pm »

Henley (-on-Thames, not -in-icecream):

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2429 on:** 07 September, 2022, 08:36:14 am »

Quote

Speaking about bridges, the Italian writer Erri De Luca, who was himself once a bricklayer said: “The Bridge is the only building work that is generous and social (cordiale). Instead of dividing [like walls], it wants to unite, to connect, to span over rivalry”.

Italy with its passions for architecture, regional rivalry, and history has some of the world’s most historic and beautiful bridges. We take you through a list of just seven of them:

https://www.threemonkeysonline.com/travel/italy/7-amazing-bridges-to-see-in-italy/

sg37409 · « **Reply #2430 on:** 05 November, 2022, 01:49:44 pm »

The fancy new stockingfield bridge at the canal junction at maryhill, glasgow, on my commute.

Stockingfield Bridge by sg310, on Flickr

GdS · « **Reply #2431 on:** 17 November, 2022, 09:23:36 pm »

not sure if done before but here's the Aldwark toll bridge near York which I found almost at the end of a double 200;

what was more charming was the lady in hiviz waiting forlonrly at the toll booth in the dark on a Sunday evening; no idea how long they stay there, sadly she couldn't even charge me the 40p toll as I was on a bike

Pingu · « **Reply #2432 on:** 17 November, 2022, 09:29:17 pm »

I've been over that bridge on a several of Easter Arrows. I didn't appreciate it looks like that.

GdS · « **Reply #2433 on:** 17 November, 2022, 09:36:07 pm »

Quote from: Pingu on 17 November, 2022, 09:29:17 pm

I've been over that bridge on a several of Easter Arrows. I didn't appreciate it looks like that.

neither did I, it was also dark

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2434 on:** 18 November, 2022, 01:25:32 am »

Is that the one that was actually under water during the 2007 Three Coasts 600?

GdS · « **Reply #2435 on:** 18 November, 2022, 08:17:59 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 18 November, 2022, 01:25:32 am

Is that the one that was actually under water during the 2007 Three Coasts 600?

no I don't think that was somewhere like Halifax?

although you might be right? I don't remember how we got round it if it was

https://ridewithgps.com/trips/14953702

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2436 on:** 18 November, 2022, 09:13:09 am »

(Checks map)

No, 2007's farcical aquatic ceremony was somewhere else, in the flatlands north of Castleford.

Salvatore · « **Reply #2437 on:** 18 November, 2022, 12:07:48 pm »

Official yacf bridgery viewpoint

Quote from: Kim on 04 September, 2022, 05:36:50 pm

Henley (-on-Thames, not -in-icecream):

Quote from: Salvatore on 08 April, 2019, 12:24:20 pm

Henley-on-Thames

GdS · « **Reply #2438 on:** 18 November, 2022, 07:21:42 pm »

rode over this on Sunday too; it's buses only on the bottom deck with footpaths which I rode along and trains of some sort on the top although it's not the main one I don't think and not used by the Metro;

was it the original road bridge before that big Sydneyesque one behind?

Salvatore · « **Reply #2439 on:** 21 November, 2022, 03:53:56 pm »

Barley Mow Bridge on Sunday morning. Basingstoke canal

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2440 on:** 25 July, 2023, 09:05:29 pm »

Bridges of the 2023 Tour de France:

That might be Prof D Van Hinsbergen and his cool hat on the bridge

Bledlow · « **Reply #2441 on:** 25 July, 2023, 10:59:11 pm »

Quote from: phil653 on 27 December, 2021, 06:56:40 pm

Puente Diamante, Fray Bentos, Uruguay. Single lane, controlled by traffic lights.

I didn't see that when I was there. But I went over this one -

- Puente Libertador General San Martín.

Got the stamp in my passport.

The other end's in Argentina.

Bledlow · « **Reply #2442 on:** 25 July, 2023, 11:15:35 pm »

The last time I was here this bridge wasn't. I crossed by ship, like my ancestors who lived there, one of who never came home after setting sail to England - & neither did anyone else who was on that ship: lost with all hands, October 1831. Never got to England.

Storebæltsforbindelsen from Nyborg (where my ancestors lived) to Korsør.